mattewholt:

Also a point to make: klance really don’t follow the trajectory of a typical rivals to friends narrative that we see in media – especially children’s media. For example, if we take Ash and Gary from the pokemon anime as the archetypal rivalry turned into a friendship to base all other rival relationships around (and I will because for the longest time, they were the picture for The Rival trope on tvtropes), then Keith and Lance don’t actually follow that trajectory. They became friends far too soon. The “we are a good team” scene came way too early in the show. If the entire purpose of their dynamic was to lead to an eventual friendship between two rivals, they’ve rushed it. And yet – whatever is developing between them is slow enough that it’s hard to assume it is just that. Like there’s another step, and the question is what that step is.